It was a series of books about an alien race. They were very adept at martial arts, training their kids at an early age, and they would hire their services out to people they deemed worthy. The main character and his best friend, a girl, discover something about a prospective client and wind up g...

I believe that the Resurrection Stone has unlimited use, so it can be used multiple times. If so, Harry Potter would have had the option of using it to resurrect a good number of good wizards so they could fight in the Battle of Hogwarts, that is if these resurrected wizards would have agreed to ...

This is a story I would have read in the '90s, I think. The beginning involves a bunch of aliens landing on Earth back in the Knights on Horseback era. They wave their ray guns around, intending to cow the lowly natives, but the lowly natives are a bunch of knights on horseback, who promptly ride...

The cartoon series Peanuts is fiction and the 1959 strip I'm looking for is related to science, so I'm hoping this is sufficiently on-topic to stay open at least long enough to receive an answer. In Mathematician, Engineer and Geoscientist Irene Fischer's book Geodesy? What's That?: My Personal I...

How does Dodge levitate in the Locke & Key comics? At the point when he does this, he doesn't have any keys yet. Is this an ability he has because he is an echo? Or because he's possessed by a demon?

At the beginning the villain is lured to a meeting where an attempt is made on his life. Another character fired a projectile out of a cane which wounded him but he was able to magic up a shield or something to avoid death.

I suddenly remembered the creepy cover of a book I saw in a children's/young adult bookstore as a kid around the year 2000. It looked too scary so I didn't buy it. Here is all I remember: The cover had three or so hideous fish-like or frog-like people in a swamp. The blurb on the back described a...

In Dark we've seen Elisabeth as Charlotte's daughter and as the story grows we've seen Charlotte as Elisabeth's daughter but from different time in the same world. Charlotte has been stolen from the future where Elizabeth was her mother and she bring her into the past before the apocalypse and a...

As shown in this GIF, when Ash's Metapod evolves into Butterfree, Butterfree emerges from within Metapod, leaving a husk behind. What happened to Metapod's body/residue? What did Ash do with it? Bury it?

In Tolkien’s Middle-earth; was Rhun based primarily on Asia? I think there are Bilbo references to this in The Hobbit, but I do not know certainly. Does anybody know the answer of this topic?

In Cornucopia Again, Chapter 64 of The Ickabog, This is proved by Cornucopia Again, Chapter 64 This seems very strange, since as far as I can tell, he lacked mens rea - the intention to do any of it at all. I think his only culpability would be due to negligence, which Spittleworth and Flapoon ...

In the movies and the various TV shows shooting blasters at Jedi is shown to be utterly ineffective. They bat the blasts away like flies with their lightsabers. This fact is well known to the various militaries. The Empire and the Separatists both had extensive experience of it. Yet their troops ...

Today on the 10th of July JK Rowling has successfully published all the Chapters of The Ickabog on the website www.theickabog.com . The 'political fairytale' has 64 chapters , with the final one being released today.

Many years ago (late '60s to '70s), I read a story about a boy with a group of hikers in a ridge who get caught in a lightning storm. They all run off the ridge, and, apparently, the boy went down the wrong side, and he got lost. The boy ended up needing to survive on his own. He used a paperclip...

I know it seems like an odd question, considering the original Rangers' master, Zordon of El'tar, was seen as the originator of the Power Ranger legacy.... heck "zord" is even in his name, and that suffice exist on every iteration of the Rangers' fighting machines to this day. ...

It takes place on a sort of gigantic ship (more like a big vessel) but special: big as a small city, can go on earth or on water. We know that there are many in the world, but it does not matter, all the story / plot / action is on this ship. Two social classes on board: the rich ones, and the ot...

Bert and Roderick manage to overtake Spittleworth to his estate, thanks to their riding skills. However the issue is how did they know where the estate was ?

This question covers why he wouldn't want to steal one and use it, but that doesn't explain why he wouldn't want to steal them all anyway. After all, having the option of (maybe risky) time travel is better than your enemies having it while you lack it. So, assuming that he knew where to look for...

JKR is known for her puns in naming things. Harry Potter is full of it. What are all the puns in her latest installment, The Ickabog?

How many creatures has the emperor of mankind killed in one action? He must have performed the action himself. Devices created by him and used by someone else do not count. Ordering things does not count either Book sources are welcome but not mandatory State 31/06/2020

I am looking for 2 Sci-Fi short stories that may have been in the same anthology book. I read the book over 20 years ago and the book was old at the time so I can’t be precise about when the stories were written. The First one is about a tree, here is what I remember: The story starts of telling...

I read this in an anthology in UK at least forty years ago. An alien soldier is almost complete in his training and needs to have his final test, this is done by him taking over the body of an Earth soldier during combat. Then he'll be deemed fit to fight his Emperor's enemies. On Earth a young A...

Many years ago I read a story - it may have been a novel, or a short story in a compilation - that included travel of the principal characters to an alternate universe, where many species of animals had been elevated (possibly by genetic manipulation?) to sentience, and were members of the altern...

Probably from the 80s or 90s. USA paperback. Cover has a human and a humanoid alien wearing back packs (hiking across a desert type terrain) who are standing on a pile of rocks or rocky prominence. Human on the top, alien a couple feet behind him. (clearly looking for the path to get out of deser...

The Room of Requirement is based on the user, but it's completely reasonable for it to become: Soundproof Reinforced (or just made of stone like the rest of the castle) Inescapable for a transformed werewolf- this doesn't need anything magic or technological- a couple of deadbolts would do it (e...